To support DAC329/ SPCOM 329: Digital Presentations, the Department of Drama and Speech Communication is pleased to sponsor the community public speaking event, Ignite Waterloo 15 on November 26, 2014. All members of the University community are in
What happens when you take music, theatre and projection and put it into a computing space? That is what we are about to find out.
Post-Doctoral Fellow Toby Malone is a busy man this summer. He is the supervising dramaturg on the Department's productions, both of which require preparation and work during the spring term. He is prepping his two new courses - DRAMA 409 (Theatre Criticism) and DRAMA 371 (Theatre History). He is the Dramaturg for King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Stratford Festival.
G&G Carpentry, a set-building and carpentry business owned and operated by staff member Gill Lesperance, has received its first public accolades.
Associate Dean and long-time Drama faculty member, Bill Chesney is not relaxing this summer. He is designing four out of the five shows in the Lighthouse Festival Theatre's 35th anniversary season.
The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is excited to announce that Toronto-based actor-playwright-director, Martha Ross, has been contracted to direct the winter production of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.
They walk these floors at night. Working in the afterlife. Like the buttons they crafted, we are fastened to our history.
Everything old is new again. In February of this year the Department of Drama and Speech Communication put out a call for a new Assistant Professor position within the unit of Speech Communication.
On April 24th, Paul Cegys and Andy Houston presented their process and challenges regarding their work on the play "From Solitary to Solidarity: Unravelling the Ligatures of Ashley Smith". The presentation took place at the REAP felt lab in St. Jacobs for the faculty and staff of the Department of Drama and Speech Communication.
DAC faculty members, Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Glenn Stillar and Dave Goodwin recently teamed up with Kelly Grindrod of UWaterloo's School of Pharmacy on a joint research project: to explore how to convince doctors and patients to reduce antibiotic use.